Gallowgate

<p>Scotland 1849. The O'Donnell girls are driven from their Wicklow home by starvation and an Anglo-Irish landlord. After losing their father the three sail to Glasgow with thousands of others in search of a new start.</p><p>Determined not to give up the two older sisters - Maeve and Kathleen - find back-breaking work in Templeton's carpet factory while the youngest 9-year-old Finola is enrolled in a new Catholic school.</p><p>After meeting the wealthy Patrick Reilly and his wife the three receive a promise for a better and more prosperous life. But in tumultuous and dangerous mid-19th-century Scotland they will need to give it their all to survive and reach their goals.</p><p>A story of survival social history and second chances Mary Edward's 'Gallowgate' is a fictitious yet informative look at young Irish immigrants' life in 1850s Glasgow Scotland.</p>